TIRF Quality Assurance
The TIRF Quality Assurance professional service evaluates the current status of language centers relative to the vision and mission of the university and/or the parent organization. TIRF Trustees recommend to language centers a strategic plan and best practices for its structure, program management, curricula, extra-curricular activities, course offerings, professional development, teaching materials, teaching methodologies, and testing and assessment efforts. The goal of this type of service is to equip language center students with high levels of communicative competence, both oral and written, when completing their studies, while ensuring language centers are efficiently and effectively operated.
TIRF Teacher Education and Professional Development Program Review
As a foundation for English language education, TIRF gives high priority to the development of a coherent program of research in language learning and teaching, dissemination of that research, and other related professional services associated with the continuous improvement of both research and language teaching and learning. Providing systematic reviews of existing English language teacher education and professional development programs, both online and face-to-face, is one of the professional services provided by TIRF.
TIRF Research Mentoring
TIRF’s Research Mentoring services are tailored for emerging scholars in the field of language education. This service involves pairing an individual researcher (i.e., the mentee) with an experienced TIRF mentor. The program aims at enhancing individuals’ and teams’ abilities to conduct empirical research. Mentees will target publishing their research as part of the mentoring outcomes.